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| Westminster distribution center staffer Kris Walker readying PRH shipping cartons containing books and two-day transit info. | |
For the fourth year in a row, Random House is offering its two-day transit holiday shipping program. But this year, the program is being expanded to include all Penguin adult and children's print new releases, frontlist and backlist--in addition to Crown Publishing Group, Random House, Knopf Doubleday, Random House Children's Books and Penguin Random House Audio titles, across all physical formats. And this year titles from all Penguin Random House Publisher Services clients are part of the program.
The 2015 program kicks off this week and runs through January 31. Orders received in the Penguin Random House order system by 3 p.m. Eastern will ship no later than the following business day, with transit time, barring inclement weather, of no more than two days. Penguin Random House titles ship from the company's Westminster, Md., and Crawfordsville, Ind., distribution centers. Both have added weekend shifts so that orders received on Friday and Saturday throughout the pre-holiday and year-end periods can be fulfilled even more quickly than in previous years.
Jaci Updike, president, Penguin Random House Sales, said: "Thanks to our successful completion of this year's distribution center and systems post-merger integrations, we are thrilled to finally be offering Penguin books, as well as complete frontlist and backlist titles from Random House, to our two-day participants. We believe faster replenishment will continue to be an enormous help to our customers' sell-through in November and December, as our in-demand titles will not only be in stock, but also can be highly visible to consumers through in-store display."
Ruth Liebmann, v-p, account marketing, Penguin Random House, added, "This year's Penguin Random House holiday rallying cry is 'two days from our dock to your door.' Booksellers tell us they love that our initiative enables them to spend less time in the backroom worrying about levels on our titles, and more time on the selling floor, assisting and hand-selling their customers."